ArticleEuropean geriatric medicine2018
Relationships between objectively assessed functional mobility and handgrip strength in healthy older adults.
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- Instrumented Timed Up and Go (iTUG): A Systematic Review of Parameters Across Healthy, Older, and Neurological Populations.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Field-Based Estimates of Muscle Quality Index Determine Timed-Up-and-Go Test Performance in Obese Older Women.Clinical interventions in aging · 2023Article
- Executive and Motor Functions in Older Individuals with Cognitive Impairment.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Clinical assessment of gait and functional mobility in Italian healthy and cognitively impaired older persons using wearable inertial sensors.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Memory, Subjective Memory and Motor Functioning in Non-Demented Elders With and Without Parkinson's Disease.Europe's journal of psychology · 2019Article
- Association between Handgrip Strength, Mobility, Leg Strength, Flexibility, and Postural Balance in Older Adults under Long-Term Care Facilities.BioMed research international · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to characterize age-related changes in Timed Up and Go (TUG) sub-phases (i.e., sit to stand, walking and turning) quantitatively assessed using an inertial sensor in healthy older adults and to verify the degree of correlation between TUG parameters and muscular strength (assessed by handgrip strength, HGS) in the different age ranges.
methodsThis is a cross-sectional study performed on 125 healthy older adults aged over 65 years stratified in four groups (< 70 years, 71-75, 76-80, > 80) who underwent an instrumental TUG carried out using a wearable inertial sensor. In addition, participants were asked to carry out the HGS test to establish possible relationships between muscular strength and TUG features.
resultsThe results show a general decline in all phases of TUG performance (albeit with some gender-related differences) which becomes significant after 75 years of age. Also, HGS was found to be systematically higher in men at any age group. Significant negative correlations between HGS and TUG phases times were found for both genders (men r = - 0.28 to - 0.50, women r = - 0.34 to - 0.60). However, when age groups were analyzed separately, such correlations are confirmed only in case of women aged < 70 years, while they vanish for most parameters in all other age groups.
conclusionThe findings obtained in the present study suggest that muscular strength might have a different relationship with functional mobility according to age and gender, and this should be considered when physical activity program or rehabilitation plans are planned.
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